No, don't worry, it's not Vornado. Banker & Tradesman reports (subscription required) that Midwood Investment and Development, which has been sitting on the Payless building at Bromfield and Washington since at least 2008, will file plans with the BRA for a tower kitty-corner from the Millennium project.
H/t Steve Adams.
Bryan Becker videoed an unusual performance at Faneuil Hall.
Via Boston Reddit.
@universalhub Sean Connery was my Red Line conductor this morning. #huntforredoctober pic.twitter.com/P0Xy2jTgjM
— Aubry Bracco (@aubrybracco) October 30, 2015
The new Roche Bros. in the old Filene's Basement goes before the Boston Licensing Board next week to request a license to sell adult libations along with its prepared meals and groceries.
The board's hearings begin at 10 a.m. in its eighth-floor hearing room in City Hall.
A Somerville man losing a fight outside the Point bar on Hanover Street early this morning regained the advantage by pulling out a knife and stabbing his opponent in the neck, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
Earlier this week, whichever imp runs the signboards on Morrissey Boulevard programmed the one heading away from UMass to warn of ghoulish tides over the next few days.
Walking along Boston Harbor near the Aquarium at lunchtime today, Jason Richardson discovered they weren't kidding:
St. Francis House and the Archdiocese of Boston are seeking BRA permission to convert the old Young Men's Christian Union building at 48 Boylston St. into 46 apartments for residents making no more than 60% of the area's median income. Read more.
WHDH reports the stabbing happened at Marshall and Hanover streets around 1 a.m.
A wide-awake citizen files a complaint at 3:48 a.m. about construction at Beverly and Lovejoy:
Construction all night causing a ton of noise. Still going on at 3:45am from last night. Sawing of pavement, dragging metal plates and jersey barriers around, smashing dirt, and a nonstop "beep" from the excavator. Please advise why this is happening. This is work for a building under construction so clearly not any sort of emergency work.
The MBTA reports workers busy upgrading the Blue Line platform at Government Center recently: Read more.
RoadTrip New England caught the performance outside the Boston Public Market today. Read more.
Boston Police report arresting two people for an attack outside the Park Street T stop that sent a man to the hospital with multiple stab wounds on Oct. 8. Read more.
Bridge Over Troubled Waters, which provides services for homeless youth, is suing a Chicago-based chain of tea shops, which it says simply abandoned the space it had agreed to rent in the non-profit group's downtown building. Read more.
Shortly after 9 p.m. Scott Eisen reports she was alive when firefighters got her out from under the train to hand over to EMS for stabilization and transportation to a local hospital.
The T swapped in buses between North Station and Oak Grove and told riders to take the Green Line for downtown points.
Because a gas leak at the Cabot rail yard south of South Station means delays on trains out of the station. People heading to points south of Braintree are now being told to take the Red Line there and then transfer to a train.
E-mail complaint to the mayor's office that helped spur LaMattina into action
With additional reporting by Kayla Canne.
City Councilor Sal LaMattina says he enjoys street performers. But faced with complaints about "bullying" from the amplifier-enhanced dancers in front of Faneuil Hall - from both tourists and other performers - he says it's time for Boston to consider some sort of busker regulations. Read more.
City Archaeologist Joe Bagley is chronicling the finds from a dig at Boston Common (between the Parkman Bandstand and the Boylston T stop), which so far have included the above British gun flint from the Revolutionary era, 17th-century ceramics and clam shells and the remains of stone tools from an earlier Native American encampment there.
Steve watched the archaeologists at work yesterday: Read more.
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